Riddles with answers

A towel. A towel gets wetter as it dries you off.

A bottle. A bottle has a narrow neck but no head.

A needle. A needle has an eye that thread goes through.

A coin. Coins have a heads side and a tails side.

An egg. You have to crack an egg before you can cook it.

A comb. A comb has many teeth, but they are for hair, not food.

A table. A table stands on legs but never goes anywhere.

A potato. The little buds on a potato are called eyes.

A piano. A piano has keys, but they play notes instead of opening locks.

A stamp. A stamp stays in the corner of an envelope while the letter travels.

A candle. A candle starts tall and burns shorter as it gets older.

A river. A river runs, has a mouth where it meets the sea, and lies in a riverbed.

Footsteps. Every step you take leaves another footprint behind.

Your age. Your age only ever goes up.

Your name. Other people say your name far more often than you do.

Darkness. The darker it gets, the less you can see.

Two. You took two apples, so you have two.

Nine. “All but 9” means 9 of them stayed.

Zero. The keypad includes 0, and anything multiplied by 0 is 0.

Seven. Remove the S from “seven” and you get “even”.

Incorrectly. The word “incorrectly” is always spelled i-n-c-o-r-r-e-c-t-l-y.

The letter M. M appears once in “minute”, twice in “moment” and never in “a thousand years”.

A joke. You can crack a joke, make a joke, tell a joke and play a joke.

A mushroom. The word mushroom ends in “room”, but it is a fungus.

A cold. You can catch a cold, but you cannot throw one.

A garbage truck. A garbage truck rolls on four wheels and attracts flies.

Your legs. Your bottom sits at the top of your legs.

A library. A library is full of stories, in books.